Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen posted on Twitter earlier today that he will pull the ultra-difficult, ultra-sparse mobile game from both the ione Android app markets early Sunday. This, hot on the heels of reports that Flappy Bird rakes in over $50,000 per day in ad revenue. “I cannot take this anymore,” said Nguyen, presumably in reference to the notoriety that came along with Flappy Bird’s popularity. He clarified that the removal has nothing to do with legality—a fair question, considering all sprites in the game appear to be ripped from Super Mario Bros....

More compact… And well, it looks very smart and stylish in a classy way. Now, do not get us wrong – we did think the OnePlus 7T was a very different and distinct-looking phone, and the OnePlus 7 was not too bad either (if a little too glossy), but the OnePlus 8 has a much more refined feel to it. And this is when we got perhaps the most low-profile color variant of all to review – the Onyx Black (the Glacial Green has been making headlines and the Interstellar White is not too far behind)....

The A30, like most of Samsung’s newer phones (apart from the flagship S10+) comes with an Infinity-U Display. Terminology aside, it is a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a drop notch and a full HD+ resolution – and of course, this being a Samsung, the display is brilliant at first glance. The drop notch also means slimmer bezels on three side, although the phone does have a rather prominent chin. If the front is impressive, the back is even more so because even though Samsung has not tried for a gradient finish, opting instead for a more conventional glossy touch, the A30’s back does look very premium with the camera unit tucked away in the top left corner, and can twist light this way and that for a very eye-catching effect....

Unfortunately, text messages are also popular with cybercriminals. Constantly developed to infect as many devices as possible, malware hiding in texts is an ever-growing concern. While they come in different forms, an old trick has been re-engineered to cause financial havoc. Read on to see how malicious text messages can install money-grabbing malware. Here’s the backstory Medusa malware made its first appearance in July 2020, sparking concern with its ability to infect devices rapidly....

The Galaxy S20 starts at $999, whereas the Mi 10 starts at a remarkable price of just $580 (approx). Although the two devices differ largely over their pricing, they surely go head-to-head with the specs and the features. So, let’s jump in and have a detailed comparison between the two. Samsung Galaxy S20 vs Xiaomi Mi 10 Design and Display In terms of design, both the S20 and the Mi 10 feature an all-glass design with a glass back, except that the one on the Mi 10 is slightly curved to offer a better grip in hand....

On Thursday, financial services and credit rating provider Moody’s published new research, including a survey of financial services, enterprise firms, infrastructure providers, public sector organizations, and government entities. Out of roughly 5,000 issuers asked to complete the survey, conducted between April 2020 and April 2021, 1,300 responded. According to the researchers, many organizations involved in the market today – including global debt issuers – are increasing their investments in cybersecurity, but their “preparedness levels and defensive capabilities vary widely....

I carried an iPhone 4 for over two years. The Note II on my desk is my second Android device, the first being a Nexus One. Deep at heart though, I’m a huge Nokia fan. It’s a shame that the company decided to bet the farm on Windows Phone instead of going with Android, but I’m not here to talk to you about that today. What I want to talk about is photography....

On any other social media platform, if you report someone is posing as you, the company goes after the miscreant. But not on Facebook, where you’re treated like a criminal. That’s right. If you report to Facebook that someone is impersonating you, you’re the one who gets locked out of your account. Now you know why #FacebookLockout is trending and why you should tap or click here to see our 10 reasons you should dump Facebook....

Isolated attacks can be quickly mitigated, but sometimes hackers have enough time to steal usernames and passwords. These details can then be sold on the black market to be used in other phishing attacks or profile hijackings. Tap or click for a tool that shows if your data has been exposed online. One of the biggest hacks in history happened in 2013 when a Yahoo breach exposed an estimated 3 billion user records....

The right app can help you locate and fix stuck pixels, check your battery health, or see if all of your phone’s sensors are working properly. Once you know what’s going on with your phone or tablet, you can make a decision on whether to live with it, get it repaired, or perhaps upgrade to a new device. Here’s how to give your Android a hardware health checkup. Phone Check (and Test) The free Phone Check (and Test) app puts a lot of interesting information at your fingertips....

Suffice to say, anyone who gets up on stage in front of a microphone for the first time is probably scared out of their wits. Many get over that fear quickly, though, and you can too. The answer lies in your mindset, and with consistent practice. But like any form of help, we’d like to leave the details to the experts like TJ Walker. Get the help you need Walker’s online aid for glossophobia is the Complete Public Speaking Master Class For Every Occasion, and it’s invaluable if you’ve got a big speech or presentation staring you down....

Let’s start our unpacked program with OllyDbg, run it, input eight A’s into the Name and Key 1 field and press CHECK STAGE 1. What happens is that a warning message is displayed saying that the key is invalid as is presented in the picture below: When reverse engineering we must always keep a bigger picture in mind – if we would follow each instruction step by step trying to decipher what each instruction does, we would pretty soon get lost....

Google’s affordable Pixel 3a is known for offering superlative camera experience. The imaging prowess of the Pixel 3a is said to be similar to the Pixel 3. Now we have numbers in the form of DxOMark review to confirm the same. DxOMark released the review of Pixel 3a and the device seems to have fared very well. Priced at $399, Pixel 3a has been one of the best affordable Android phones....

The Next Web noted that a Microsoft employee had to pause a live demonstration of the Azure cloud platform to install Google Chrome because the site did not work with the Edge. In the presentation, the director Michael Leworthy shows potential customers how to migrate their applications and data to Azure; but in the middle of the session, the site hangs on Edge. He hesitates a bit and decides to install Chrome to finalize the demo; the audience applauds....

“I like classical music,” he explains in a voice that is rather soft for such a tall man. “Actually I was brought up with a lot of classical music. My great grandfather was a composer, my grandmother was a composer. My great grandfather was Iceland’s probably most recognized classical music composer. So while I was a kid, I would sit on my grandmother’s lap while she was playing the piano....

The alert says that local government agencies are attractive targets for cyber criminals to hit with ransomware, because they oversee critical services on which the public depends. Ransomware attacks against local governments have caused disruptions to healthcare, emergency services and safety operations, and have seen sensitive personal data stolen by hackers, putting individuals at further risk of fraud and cybercrime. The attacks targeting local services show no signs of slowing down....

There is a rumor of whether of not Galaxy S21 Ultra supports S-Pen. Recently, Samsung President of Mobile Division said that Galaxy Note features will soon be available on other flagships. Thanks to an FCC listing we now know that Galaxy S21 Ultra will support S-Pen. A Samsung device bearing SM-G998B model number appeared on FCC. The listing reveals Galaxy S21 Ultra will support a stylus device which in all probability refers to S-Pen....

Android 10 has already been treated to a minor update. The patch is the first major Android 10 update and is available for all Pixel devices. The update arrives with improvement in gesture navigation and slays several bugs including the infamous Pixel gesture issue. The patch will be “Gesture navigation stability improvements” for all the pixel devices. With the update, users should be able to navigate across Android 10 easily by using the white strip button....

Building a cheap smartphone smartphone is easy. Building a cheap smartphone that people actually want to buy is the hard part. If you want to hit that $99 price point, you have to make sacrifices, so you start with the obvious components like screen and materials, but what about the guts? With the launch of Android 4.4 KitKat, Google says it’s the first version of Android that’s optimized to run on devices with as little as 512 MB of memory....

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